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      veryplaintxt
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      A lovely theme for WordPress 2.0
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      &raquo;
      <a href="#intro" title="License">Intro</a>
      <a href="#installation" title="Installation">Installation</a>
      <a href="#changes" title="Changes to veryplaintxt">Changelog</a>
      <a href="#design" title="Design &amp; Credits">Design</a>
      <a href="#custom" title="Customing veryplaintxt">Use &amp; Customizing</a>
      <a href="#theme" title="Theme Contents">Theme Contents</a>
      <a href="#beyond" title="Beyond">Beyond</a>
      &laquo;
      <br/>
      <strong><small>(<a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/" title="plaintxt.org &raquo; Themes">plaintxt.org Themes</a>)</small></strong>
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        Intro
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      <a href="#installation" title="Download veryplaintxt"><img src="screenshot.png" alt="screenshot of veryplaintxt" /></a>
      <p>
        I designed this theme because I wanted a blog that looked like what I wanted out of a blog: something content-centric, clean, flexible, and valid XHTML &amp; CSS. This theme is all of that. My inspiration behind this theme were Dave Eggers' books and the <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/">McSweeny's</a> publication. Which are all lovely.
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        <strong>veryplaintxt</strong> (latest version - 1.1) copyright &copy; 2006 by <a href="http://www.plaintxt.org" title="Scott's blog">Scott Allan Wallick</a>
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      <p>
        The <code>veryplaintxt</code> theme is licensed under the <a
        href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html" title="GNU General Public License v.2">GNU General Public
        License</a>. Please feel free to alter this theme in any way that pleases you. All
        I ask is that you allow my original design credit to remain.
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      <p>
		Go ahead and just click on the screenshot to download the silly thing.
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        <a href="#top" title="Back to the top">Top</a>
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      <h2 id="installation">
        Installation
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      <p>
        <strong>Note</strong>: This theme was designed and tested for <a
        href="http://wordpress.org/" title="WordPress">WordPress 2.0</a>. If
        you need any support, please feel free to <a
        href="http://www.plaintxt.org/contact/"
        title="plaintxt.org &raquo; Contact">contact</a> me.
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          <a href="veryplaintxt.zip" title="Download veryplaintxt">Download</a> the zip archive of the theme files.
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          Unzip the contents to your desktop or wherever you fancy.
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          Upload the <code>veryplaintxt</code> folder and its contents to
          <code>/wp-content/themes/</code>.
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        <li>
          In WordPress admin, click on <em>Presentation</em> and activate
          <em>veryplaintxt</em> theme.
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          Enjoy.
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      <h2 id="changes">Changelog</h2>
      <p>Please visit the <a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/files/themes/veryplaintxt/" title="veryplaintxt">veryplaintxt</a> theme page for updates.</p>
      <p>
		<strong>2006-01-31 | Ver. 1.1</strong><br />
		- Fixed design flaws in <code>archives.php</code> and <code>links.php</code> (the latter now displays descriptions set for the links) so both now display the sidebar<br />
		- Added and condensed design elements in the CSS<br />
		- Fixed <code>label</code> issue when no search results are returned and <code>searchform.php</code> is displayed twice
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      <p>
		<strong>2006-01-27 | Ver. 1.0 (!?!)</strong><br />
		- Reset the version to 1.0 because of some design flaws.<br />
		- Don't question me.
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      <p>
		<strong>2006-01-26 | Ver. 1.2.1</strong><br />
		- Added CSS borders to <code>textarea</code> and <code>input</code><br />
		- Fixed oversight in <code>search.php</code> that wasn't giving results in a proper <code>ol</code>
      </p>
      <p>
		<strong>2006-01-24 | Ver. 1.2</strong><br/>
		- Altered the CSS for <code>.twocolumn</code> and <code>.narrowcolumn</code> to provide enough spacing in various browsers and screen resolutions.
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      <h2 id="design">
        Design
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      <p>
        I am not a designer. The <code>veryplaintxt</code> theme is my first
        publically released theme. I must credit my inspiration from the Blue
        Robot (AKA Rob Chandanais) <a
        href="http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/"
        title="BlueRobot &raquo; The Layout Reservoir">Layout Reservoir</a>,
        which taught me much.
      </p>
      <p>
        And of course the people at <a href="" title="">A
        List Apart</a> for their well-written articles. I based my CSS layout
        for <code>veryplaintxt</code> on their article, <a
        href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins"><em>Creating
        Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins</em></a>.
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      <h2 id="custom">
        Use &amp; Customizing
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      <p>
        A criticism of this theme is that there are no sidebars and little navigation in the single post pages. I don't care. Why? Because this theme won't solve all your problems. I've designed it to do what I want it to do. Apologies. It's just my personal take and what I like in a blog, and what worked for my site. 
      </p>
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        The good news is that this theme is totally customizable. If you would like the sidebar to appear on the single blog post pages, then open the file <code>single.php</code> and go to lines 2&ndash;3. Make the following two changes: 
      </p>
      <p><strong>Making <code>single.php</code> 2-column</strong></p>
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      <li>Open <code>single.php</code> in your editor of choice. If the file is wrietable, you can change it in the WordPress <em>Theme Editor</em></li>
      <li>Go to lines 2&ndash;3.</li>
      <li>Make the following <em>two</em> changes:
		<br />
		<code>&lt;div id=&quot;container&quot; class="<del>onecolumn</del> twocolumn"&gt;</code>
		<br />
		<code>&lt;div id=&quot;content&quot; class="<del>widecolumn</del> narrowcolumn"&gt;</code>
      </li>
      <li>Go to the very end of the file and find the line that has <code>&lt;?php get_footer(); ?&gt;</code>.</li>
      <li>Above it, on a new line, add the following line:
		<br />
		<code>&lt;?php get_sidebar(); ?&gt;</code>
      </li>
      <li>Update the file.</li>
      </ol>
      <p><strong>Using the <strong>veryplaintxt</strong> page templates</strong></p>
      <p>When creating a new page in WordPress, you can choose a different tempalte by selection files from the drop-down menu on the left. Here's a braekdown of what the templates do:</p>
      <ul>
		  <li><code>widepage.php</code> &mdash; This is a single-column page template that is great for pages that need the entire screen, like photo galleries</li>
		  <li><code>link.php</code> &amp; <code>archive.php</code> &mdash; There are both "standard" page templates that come with many WordPress themes. The <code>link.php</code> template will give a page with all your links as entered into the WordPress Link Manager. The <code>archive.php</code> template will give a thorough list of your archives by month and category. Both of these templates won't display any text you add in the composition window.</li>
      </ul>
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		<h2 id="theme">
        Theme Contents
      </h2>
      <p>
        Contents of the <code>veryplaintxt</code> folder:
      </p>
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        <li>
          404.php
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          archives.php
        </li>
        <li>
          attachment.php
        </li>
        <li>
          comments.php
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          footer.php
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          header.php
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          index.php
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          links.php
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          page.php
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          quote.png
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          readme.html
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          screenshot.png
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        <li>
          search.php
        </li>
        <li>
          searchform.php
        </li>
        <li>
          sidebar.php
        </li>
        <li>
          single.php
        </li>
        <li>
          style.css
        </li>
        <li>
          widepage.php
        </li>
      </ul>
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      <h2 id="beyond">Beyond</h2>
      <p>Please visit the author's homepage at <a href="http://www.plaintxt.org">plaintxt.org</a>. And enjoy the theme.</p>
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